person
Vanya's mother
also: mamasha
Vanya's widowed mother, whose social ambitions rest on his classical schooling; when he fails his Greek exam she alternates between self-pitying lament and demanding he be whipped.
Reading notes
- A Classicist's Misfortune §1 his mother
Vanya's mother, a widow of modest gentry pretensions who has staked everything on his classical education.